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Party Time!

7/28/2014

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I had some great but busy days with getting some work done at the cabin. Paul helped me out again, such a sweetheart! We started to close the gaps between the roof and walls. It’s not difficult to do, except for the part that you stand on a ladder and have to work on strange angles at times. Hahaha! But soon we got a hang of it.

On Saturday we got the small gaps closed in, on the west and east side of the cabin. Sunday was Paul’s 19th birthday. How time flies. I remember so well when he was just a tiny adorable baby. LOL Even though it was his birthday, he insisted to still do some work at the cabin. He really enjoys working at the cabin. So we started with closing gaps at the north side wall. There are in total 22 gaps to close, north and south side, so that means 22 times measuring, cutting boards and screwing in. Not hard to do, just time consuming. Paul and I did 5 boards. It looks awesome! I will finish this during the week. Except for the doors, the cabin will be all enclosed then.  

Then we took the time to set things up for his birthday party. Paul wanted a party at the acreage and we created a nice sitting area with chairs and the swing and fire pit. We also set up all the old tiki lights and the citronella candles and a folding table for the food. It was very cloudy in the afternoon, but around 6 pm the sky cleared and the sun came out. The wind went down and it was just perfect!

We had a nice group of friends coming out. We were with 12 people all together and it was a lot of fun. Paul had a fire going and lit the candles and tiki lights. The mosquitos were awful but everybody was well prepared for that. Around 11 pm the mosquitos were almost gone though. After the last guests left, Paul, Brandon and I cleaned up a little, made sure no food left overs anywhere. (bears) When the lights were all out, we enjoyed a very bright star lit sky. Millions of stars! And the Milky Way! Many shooting stars too! It was SO beautiful. We were almost done and ready to go home, when Paul discovered a bright light in the northern sky. Northern Lights! Isn’t that beautiful? What a perfect birthday. When we drove away from the yard, we saw the northern lights dancing in the sky and we stopped the truck to get out and just watched it for a while. It was breath taking. A perfect end of a perfect party.  

Today Paul will leave to Winnipeg to play football for the season. He will come back sometime in October, and some times for a long weekend. It’s only 6 hours away so that isn’t too bad. He has found a job already  with help of good friends and can even stay with them for a while. Wonderful people!   I will miss him but I’m so happy for him that he can follow his dreams. You are not fully alive when you can’t follow your dreams right?

Thank you Paul, for all your great help and support! You're a wonderful son and I love you very much. Have lots of fun and good luck with football!  

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Donna
11/27/2014 01:18:12 pm

oh, Saskie, I'm so sorry, I must have misunderstood earlier in thinking Paul was just your husband's son when he must be yours as well but ours, my husband's and mine, and yours are almost the same age; ours just turned 19, just a week ago tomorrow and he had the same type party, outside on our acreage, with a fire, no pit, but he's been doing this for a while, so it's pretty well cleared off; they used to use an old cast iron bathtub that was in this house we had moved to our property but they decided it was keeping the warmth too in so they quit; our neighbor had wanted it for a watering trough for his horses - haven't quite noticed what you use for yours - so sorta wish I'd just let him have it now, but had in mind to use it for something before they started and now I don't know if it could be or not; it's pretty charred. Had found some lamp type things that had bowls for oil or some type fuel to use for outdoor lighting at our little local store outside when I was there but then didn't see them anymore and when went to see about them he'd taken them in, said something was wrong with one of them but hub ran an extension cord - yes, we'd love to do solar and offgrid but...- oh, yea, was gonna tell you, that, yes, we have a little shed thing that we set up a folding table under for the food as well and keep chairs under as well, have a swing frame but we've put the swing on the porch, would like to either get another one or probably should take it down and put it back on the frame on occasions like that; anyway made chili - anyway ran the cord out there and his friend/our neighbor - they went and got, brought over one of those big halogen work lights; so nice, his friend Riley actually came over and spent time talking with me; was as nice a party as sounds like you had.

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Saskia
11/27/2014 07:24:16 pm

That is ok Donna. :-) Funny how our kids like to have acreage parties huh?

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